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Established Compute & infrastructure Analysis 6d ago
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Mamdani AI data centers Our Risk Their Reward

‘Our Risk, Their Reward’: Zohran Mamdani on AI and Data Centers

6 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

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How the network is reacting 3 experts are independently emphasizing concern & critique.
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“"what you’re seeing from Americans ...is an opposition for what these #datacenters would mean in their day-to-day lives ...It’s also a repudiation of what has been a governing politics for the last few years when it comes to AI, which is: our risk, their re…”

Developing AI business Signal 1d ago

Silicon valley promises ai will cure disease drugmaker ceos arent buying it 5218511c

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“"Executives leading the companies that discover new drugs say AI isn’t going to cure cancer anytime soon. They are dimming the hype around the technology’s use in drug research, saying human biology is too complicated even for superintelligence." www.wsj.co…”

“This article is considerably more nuanced than the headline would suggest, but "We need AI because it will cure cancer" is a Silicon Valley talking point that has made me howl with rage for some time. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sili...”

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Alondra Nelson: "Executives leading the companies that discover new drugs say AI isn’t going to cure cancer anytime soon. They are dimming the hype around the technology’s use in drug research, saying human biolog…
Michiel Bontenbal: "Executives leading the companies that discover new drugs say AI isn’t going to cure cancer anytime soon. They are dimming the hype around the technology’s use in drug research, saying human biolog…
Thomas Dietterich: Yes, this is why I'm impressed with what Daphne Koller at her company Insitro is trying to do: Develop narrow, precise outcome proxies based on physiology
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Established Culture, work & education Signal 17d ago
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Alpha school ai education parents

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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“And now the media heavyweights weigh in. @danagoldstein.bsky.social does a thorough job reporting on the ed-tech ambitions of Alpha School, and whether existing claims about its effectiveness withstand scrutiny (answer: no). Appreciate the nod to my reporti…”

Established AI field signal Signal 5d ago
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Prisons Using AI to Predict When Incarcerated People Will Commit Future Crimes

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““Recidiviz began as a data organization project at Google, meant to ‘uncover how technology could standardize criminal justice data and improve the system nationwide.’””

2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
Hypervisible : “Recidiviz began as a data organization project at Google, meant to ‘uncover how technology could standardize criminal justice data and improve the system nationwide.’”
Alondra Nelson: “Recidiviz began as a data organization project at Google, meant to ‘uncover how technology could standardize criminal justice data and improve the system nationwide.’”
Jed Brown: Recidiviz is deployed in many states despite a dearth of independent audits. Audits of similar systems like COMPAS and this one in Ontario (used for exactly the purpose Michigan is deploying Recidi…
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Established AI field signal Signal 15d ago

Ai bubble financial crisis lehman

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“Nice one from Jen Harris. "the US economy is fully hostage to an AI build-out laden with increasingly worrying financial engineering, all riding on a wager" between hoped-for increases in AI demand, potential customers, and industry infrastructure investmen…”

Established Models & releases Analysis 14d ago
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Nathan Lambert open language models overview

Open Language Models: Overview, Open Source History, Distillation, Risks, & Chinese Labs

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

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“My first open model lecture, covering all the many pieces that build the ecosystem, and the open questions/debates determining where it goes next. How does distillation fit in? How do we manage risks? How do we see access to models changing in the future? V…”

Established AI field signal Analysis 13d ago
Stanford HAI AI future hope fear essay

Confronting Our AI Future: Hope, Fear, and the Choices Ahead | Stanford HAI

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“Tomorrow morning @stanfordhai.bsky.social I'll join friends and colleagues Dan Ho and @amyzegart.bsky.social in a discussion on "Who Gets to Govern Intelligence?" hai.stanford.edu/events/confr...”

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9 experts · 14 posts · 17d ago
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
Alex Hanna: Excited to announce that I've signed a contract with @mitpress.bsky.social for a new book! It's about ImageNet, a dataset of 14 million photos. Without it, we likely wouldn't have "AI" as we curren…
Veni Kunche: Excited to announce that I've signed a contract with @mitpress.bsky.social for a new book! It's about ImageNet, a dataset of 14 million photos. Without it, we likely wouldn't have "AI" as we curren…
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